RaveThe Wall Street JournalHardly any scholar has a more detailed understanding of Germany in 1525 than Ms. Roper, and this book emerges as a natural extension of the author’s recent work on Martin Luther ... What Luther may have failed to anticipate, and what Ms. Roper describes in wonderful detail, is the power of the pulpit in a theocracy ... Ms. Roper’s book works from a wide angle and gathers a kaleidoscope of images, roving high about the topography.
